
Senior Conference 55—The Emerging Environment in the Indo-Pacific Region: Drivers, Directions, and Decisions, explores the possibilities and challenges that exist in this critical and dynamic region. This monograph captures three days of panels, keynotes, and discussions among a diverse group of distinguished experts.
Focus areas included shifting economic realities, political dynamics, technological trends, and forms of conflict and competition that could shape the region’s future. Senior Conference 55 assembled a range of experts taking a broad approach to the entire Indo-Pacific region to explore complex and varied relationships.
This monograph begins by summarizing the consensus recommendations that emerged during the event, followed by the substance of the keynote addresses and panels, all while maintaining a nonattributional approach that allowed conversations to tackle hard questions. This monograph presents those discussions, including disagreements and dissenting viewpoints, and serves as a foundation for future debate on possible policy.
The Indo-Pacific region is—and will continue to be—crucial for both the United States and the global community. The United States needs to increase its capacity for decision-making amid risk and uncertainty in the coming decades. This monograph offers key findings for confronting these challenges and broadens the conversation about future US policy in the Indo-Pacific.
Foreword vii
Abbreviations and Acronyms ix
Summary xi
Senior Conference 55—The Emerging Environment in the Indo-Pacific Region: Drivers, Directions, and Decisions 1
The Indo-Pacific Landscape: Opportunities and Challenges 1
Watching, Respecting, and Understanding the Region 2
Revitalizing the International Liberal Order 7
Panel 1: Economic Considerations 21
Guiding Questions 21
Changing Demographics 22
Balancing Prosperity and Security 26
Economic Statecraft: OBOR and OPIC 27
Panel 2: Security Considerations 33
Guiding Questions 33
Managing US-China Competition 35
Engaging Regional Partners and Allies 36
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US Army War College Countering Military Innovation 39
Panel 3: The Potential of Technology 41
Guiding Questions 41
Technological Infrastructure 42
Digital Innovation and Governance 44
Influence Operations 46
Panel 4: Forms of Conflict and Competition 49
Guiding Questions 49
Characteristics of the Regional Security Environment 50
Changing Nature of Warfare 51
Getting Creative 53
Exploring the “Indo” Side of Indo-Pacific 54
Management of State Relations across the Indo-Pacific 55
Recommendations 56
Senior Conference 55
Participants 59
Senior Conference History 62
Acknowledgments 70
About the Editors. 71
Senior official representatives from the private sector, the Federal government, Academia, think tank community, and U.S military services, plus Allied official counterparts will find this resource a comprehensive and compelling lesson in the Indo-Pacific rapidly changing landscape.
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- Babcock-Lumish, Terry
- Army SSI
- National Strategy and Policy Community and Academia
- Army War College